This growth in quantitative investing has expanded to traditional firms as well with Black Rock and T Rowe offering quantitative based products to their investors. In today’s markets finding data, transforming data into useful insight, and integrating that information into existing trading and risk management processes is not optional. The mere amount of data, the rate at which new capital markets data is created and the speed with which that data must be acted upon dictates that all firms apply some form of quantitative approach to their investment management process.